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The English translation is taking liberties with the text. The Hebrew says....Chasid...as in Hasidic Jews. Are Hasidic Jews holy? Well maybe outwardly. But Chasid means to be loyal to the covenant. The Hebrew word for holy is Kadosh/ Kodesh. You will find that only God is holy. Rev. 15:4 Who...

And yet a man....Jesus ...did it. So when we enter into Him we do exactly as He did. It is like...anything that Jesus can do...I can do in Him. Did Jesus not have real physical limbs? Yet these limbs were able to walk on water because they were part of Him. The physical human feet of Jesus...

With God all things are possible. But without Jesus we can do nothing. Mankind was incapable of conforming to God's ways in holiness until Jesus came to give His life to do it with. Jesus is the way...the truth AND the life we are to abide in to fulfill all righteousness...including that which...

People in the OT sought to obey the righteousness of the law....the outward righteousness of not actually stealing, or killing people..yet inwardly people were still carnal in their thoughts and hearts. The NT life in Christ not only follows the righteousness of the law...but also the...

The NT is about the grace required to fulfill the law that was received in the OT. If there had been the sufficiency of the Spirit in the OT, then Jesus would not have had to come personally. But do we really understand why Jesus came to earth?...I mean apart from a being a better sacrifice for...

There is a big difference between receiving a law one cannot obey and receiving the grace to fulfill it apart from the law. Our job is to put it together. God provides the puzzle pieces and then shows us Christ who is the image of what we are to become. Life trumps law just as love does.

Revelation and regeneration and the need for such is not condescension. Spiritual things don't make sense in the human mind. One must see the foreshadow as well as the prophetic fulfillment. It is assumed by many that these are straightforward...yet the confusion persists in many. I'm not...

The OT was about sanctifying yourself. ...washing and putting on certain clothing and doing certain rituals. Outside things...like a temple built by human hands. In the NT the temple becomes they who enter into Christ....to have the presence of God within....as well as upon....when you consider...

Yes....and this refers to a workman who worked with his hands. But there is a prophetic meaning to this. It involves the way God builds His spiritual house (not made with hands). So the OT has these spiritual and prophetic statements that are meant to be understood in the future tense. One...

The purpose of God's voice and direction in the OT was for service in doing what God wanted His servants to do. It was NOT for an inward conformity to Christ. There was no template to be forged into yet available. It was a walk in one's own faith...not the faith of Christ. So this is describing...

If a man's eye is dark...everything appears dark.

What to watch for? A Christianity that is really just a glorified self-centeredness. As in...how could God refuse me?!

We Gentiles have received Christ without any effort or seeking on our part. It is a gift. He was found by they who sought Him not. But to walk in obedience to His calling does require that seeking. And this is why godly Gentiles are just as rare as godly Israelites. God has not changed and...

The abundant life is found in Christ....and when you enter into His covering anointing the life that is hidden in your heart (Christ in you) burst out of it's protective covering so that you are filled with His Spirit and life. That protective covering is the outer man we usually identify as...

God sees who we are. He tests us and watches how we do in the situations that He allows to arise in our lives. Didn't Joshua and Caleb pass their tests? Did they not do better than their brethren? They trusted God to do the fighting for them so God was with them. So if we surrender fully to the...

I was going to ask you if you were a player or had a musical background. Enjoyed your comments. Props to my fellow bassist as well as my brother! :) Do you have anything you are playing on as a recording? What were your influences? Do you still own a bass....or basses...??? ;) I'm not...

Thank you! Actually the sax player is the only unbeliever I worked with....I met him on a big band gig. I can't play the saxophone....or any other wind instrument. I play guitar as well as bass...but I don't use effects so I needed a guy who was good with the whole sound thing. So if there is...

Just read Exodus! ;) But I know where we are called to. I am a living witness to that high calling. And in every generation the body needs to come together to push into the promises of God. We need to "strive together for the faith of the gospel.". But the traditions of men have rendered this...

First...thank you for your kind comments and interest. Yes I did....Even though I came to the Lord at age 21 I was "on the road" in a band for a few years before that. Back then we used to play clubs and bars...6 nights a week. And on Sunday we traveled to the next gig. All this before my...

This is a common error. This statement would be akin to thinking the wilderness and the promised land were both the same place...since they are out of Egypt. The mistake of a novice. A lack of experience in the presence of God. But the real journey is in the high calling in Christ...to enter...